Category: Trump Dump

Zero Science planets, but one world with constantly rising city count. I am building everything there, and start a secondary Metals world and lacking Science, an Energy world, too.

Elodie (Yellow) almost dies early in the game and goes nowhere. Hutama (Orange) throws the towel and joins Kavitha (Red) of all teams. So do Barre (Green) and finally Elodie, too.

Due to the Energy flood I am having a fleet of 8x 400HP heavies with Plasmas and heavy Armor, Science on Armor and Plasma, too.

I get bored and invade Kavitha, negotiate, get 13k Metals, build wonders, and immediately declare war on Kavitha again, invade, negotiate, get 11k Science, science it into Plasma improvements, immediately declare war again, invade, negotiate, get another 11k metals, and build more wonders.

With my own Metals that’s a 65k Metals round, and a Wonder Victory. Ok, I guess that’s one way to do it.

Tumblr of the Day is WTF Visualizations. It is also in Post-Car Society, because instead of useless graphics it shows a somewhat astonishing display of a graph of newly installed wind power generation vs. the percentage of vote for Clinton vs Trump. Nice correlation.

The Washington Post reports on the amount of damage the travel bans in the US are doing to travel as a whole, not just the six/seven countries primarily targeted:

The result was a wave of withdrawals. “Getting those cancellations all at once, that was startling,” said Russ Hedge, chief executive of HIU, which oversees 52 hostels across the country. “We’ve never seen something like that.”

and

Fifteen miles from the White House, the Sheraton Tysons Hotel is now offering a free Apple Watch to anybody who books a meeting. “We’re doing everything we can to get through this storm,” said Chris Zindash, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing.